Safety Reading Glasses Search

[Ken Massingale]

I've Googled till I need stronger glasses!
I am looking for safety glasses with 1.5-2.0 diopter lenses, but not with that aggravating, and for me dangerous, little magnified area at the bottom. I want the entire lense to be mag'ed.
Anyone seen such a creature?
Thanks,
ken

[sacherjj]

I would also be interested in the opposite (in prescription). I have been looking around for some safety glasses for my near sightedness. I haven't seen them at the eyeglass places I've looked.

I was thinking about trying these guys:
http://www.rxsafetywear.com/

[Cody.h]

Ken and Joe I would look for an optician...hard to find but still out there. I just got a pair of prescription progressive bi-focal safety glass and it cost me $103.00 total....best money I've spent in years. They are plastic lens though...the optician says safer then glass but Im hard on lens so we'll see how long they hold up.
My optician was the only person who would even talk to me about glass lenses. I've wore photo grey lenses for years and about 4 years ago had to get bi-focals too. I went to my eye doctors place and every big place in town..lenscrafters...sears etc. and was told there was no such thing anymore. My FIL found the place I use now and he sells me glass photo-grey progressive bi-focal lenses...new thinner style..and a frame for $450.00 same price as plastic. I'm on my 3rd pair of lenses from him now...just lenses are $300.00..same frames and just love them. I wipe the lenses with a old rag...my shirt...fingers and they have never scratched...prescription keeps changing. So I bet you can find what you need...just gotta find the right person!

[Tom Miller]

I've Googled till I need stronger glasses!

So it is true!

I don't have any info for you, but thought I could make you feel better by telling you my eyesight has recently shifted so my diopter-thingy is off by 0.5 from one eye to the other. (Must have taken a whack to the back of the head that I don't remember. I guess if it was a good whack, I wouldn't.) Now, I can't even pick up cheap readers at the drugstore.

Well, maybe I found something useful after all (second item down, full lens magnifier).

Or here, or here.

Regards,
Tom

[Ken Massingale]

So it is true!

I don't have any info for you, but thought I could make you feel better by telling you my eyesight has recently shifted so my diopter-thingy is off by 0.5 from one eye to the other. (Must have taken a whack to the back of the head that I don't remember. I guess if it was a good whack, I wouldn't.) Now, I can't even pick up cheap readers at the drugstore.

Well, maybe I found something useful after all (second item down, full lens magnifier).

Or here, or here.

Regards,
Tom

Thanks Cody and Tom.
I believe I'll try number 2 from Tom's links for a start. I may have to go the pro route later.

And Tom, we now know the source of your 'condition'.
Should I ask who provided the knock?

And I did stop Googling before blindness set in, so there!

[dkhoward]

Geez. Wish I had such a problem. One eye is +1.75 with an astigmitism and the other is -.5. I wear a toric contact lense in the eye with astigmitism and a standard lense in the other. Safety Glasses really aren't a problem at least.

[cwsmith]

I'm not sure how much this will help you, but for the years I worked at the local industrial plant and they provided safety glasses free to the employees. Wearing safety glasses (w/side shields) in the shop areas is an OSHA requirement and every employee must be equipped. Over the many years, the prime contractor was Winchester Optical and every week their Optomitrist would come in and fit any individual for safety glasses, which usually arrived a couple of weeks later. (He would also do repairs, replacements, etc.) All we had to do is get an eye exam and then bring in our prescription and the Winchester guy would take it from there. In addition to regular "walking around" glasses, I would get a prescription for "computer distance" and these also worked great for doing shop work.

The point is, check the listings in your area for such places or inquire with any local industries that might have a source for their safety glasses program.

I hope this helps,

CWS

[LCHIEN]

I have (and the company I work for paid for them) prescription ANSI-Z87 spec safety glasses. They are graduated (progressives, no line) with Transitions (auto-gray) and titanium frames. Look like my titanium Flexees frame progressives high index but with/out Transitions but just a bit thicker. I wear them all the time now - they don't look really safetyish and its convenient. Oh yeah, they have detachable sideshields for when those are called for.

My main vision problem in the shop is stooping over and looking at things under the table (like the router table where it's close but you end up looking thru the top of the glasses where the distance correction is) or in the store where I'm trying to read the label on the bottom shelf, again the same problem.

[Tom Miller]

My main vision problem in the shop is stooping over and looking at things under the table (like the router table where it's close but you end up looking thru the top of the glasses...

Yeah! You nailed it on that one!

Just a couple days ago, a guy at work told me he has a pair of glasses with bifocals on bottom and top for that very reason.

I don't really have much of an eye correction at all. I used to be 20:20 or better until a rare eye disease resulted in a cataract in one eye (when I was in my early 30's!). About 5 yrs later I got a cataract in the other eye, so now I've got lens implants in both eyes.

So I don't use bifocals because I'm old, I use them because of my cataracts.

Regards,
Tom

[Tom Miller]

And Tom, we now know the source of your 'condition'.

Doesn't explain all of it, but it gives you an idea.

Should I ask who provided the knock?

The usual suspects, but the smart money is on the 5 yr old. (He's the head just above the workbench in my avatar.) When I come home at night, sometimes all I hear is "ATTACK!!!".

Regards,
Tom